Nancy Millis Awards Night 2024 Undergraduate Student Prize Winners 2024 Nancy Millis Awardee Hugh Cottingham, Nancy Millis Runner Up Sara Di Simone, and ASM Vic Branch Awardee Georgie Gilmore with 2024 ASM Vic Branch chair A/Prof Steve Petrovski Nancy Millis Awardee Hugh Cottingham and ASM Vic Branch chair A/Prof Steve Petrovski Inaugural Microbial Mixer January 2024 Trivia 2023 Winners Trivia 2023 2nd place Trivia 2023 3rd place Trivia 2023 equal 4th place Trivia 2023 equal 4th place Trivia 2023 5th place Trivia 2023 6th place Trivia 2023 7th place 2023 ECR Awardee Emily Gulliver at ASM National 2023, taking home the ASM ECR prize! Inaugural ECR Awardee Emily Gulliver 2023 Undergraduate Student Awardees 2023 Committee meeting over zoom 2020 Victorian ASM Branch Award winner (Ashleigh Rogers) and her supervisor, Prof Dena Lyras 2020 ASM Nancy Millis Award winner, Marion Bichet, and her supervisor, Dr Jeremy Barr ASM Vic Branch Christmas party: waiting for guests to arrive ASM Vic Branch Christmas party at the Crafty Squire Winner of the 2019 Microbial Art Prize, Gene Drendel, receiving certificate from Mary Valcanis (Deputy Chair, ASM Vic Branch) Awardees from our Nancy Millis Awards night. Left to right: Marion Bichet (ASM Nancy Millis Awardee), Ashleigh Rogers (Victorian ASM branch awardee), and A/Prof Karena Waller (Immediate Past Chair, ASM Vic Branch) Back-to-Back (2018/2019) winner for our Microbial Art Prize, Gene Drendel 2018 Microbial Art PrizeGrowth of fungal colonies isolated from soil and grown on Rose Bengal Agar. Photo shows differing colony morphology and droplets of fungal exudates - Gene Drendel, La Trobe University Committee meeting with a very welcome guest, Prof Julian Rood (Chair, NEQB) 2019 Microbial Art PrizeGrowth pattern of a Bacillus mycoides colony grown from a single spot as it spreads across an agar plate - Gene Drendel, La Trobe University 2020 Microbial Art PrizeLysis of a Blockteria by Polydron-phage - Jen Wood, La Trobe University, and Adam Wood 2020 Microbial Art Prize Runners UpLeft: Metalwork Phage - Charlotte Grazebrook (Monash University)Top: Your Oral Microbes - Samantha Byrne, University of MelbourneKombucha Mother - Jacqulyn Evans, La Trobe University